Fishing at Lac Kaki, Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec

• Overview

  Lac Kaki lies within the bounds of Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. Everything around it is taiga. With some 47 hectares of water, there is room for a boat but no need of one. About 4.5 km of bank, so nothing stays unexplored for long. It ranks high for size among our Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean listings. Chibougamau sits 89 km from the bank. Saguenay sits 234 km out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. Rules here are straightforward: one set of provincial rules.

• Where to Fish on Lac Kaki

  Nothing in our records gives a depth for this one. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. The productive water is a rod length or two out, not a hundred. Saguenay/Lac-Saint-Jean records list northern pike, Atlantic salmon, lake whitefish and fallfish among the fish reported. Protected fish appear in the records for this area, so treat the list as information, not an invitation. The near bank of Lac Kaki is often the one people ignore.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 16°C at the top of summer and -19°C at the bottom of winter. Little of the calendar is open water, so timing counts for everything. Break-up comes around early May, and the run that follows is short and strong. On the long-run averages the water opens up around early May and starts locking again about mid November. Spring is short and heavy here; autumn is longer and steadier. The season on Lac Kaki follows the weather closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  Ownership and access are not documented in what we hold. Records list it as a natural water body rather than an impoundment. No car park, ramp or path is recorded within easy reach of the shore. For the pike, wire up and throw larger lures along the weed edges. Take the rules with you rather than trusting memory. Where the way in crosses private ground, ask first. Lac Farley, 2.2 km away, makes the obvious fallback. Nothing here settles the position at Lac Kaki for certain.